Indeed, this kind of community, tied to no single locale, is particularly well-suited for McGinley, allowing him to journey widely without pulling up roots. “I like developing new familiarities,” he says when asked about his peripatetic impulses. “When I’m in one place for a long time, I tend to fall into a rut — I am essentially a creature of habit and routine. Maybe moving around so much is an unconscious way of keeping myself awake and active, slightly off-balance and alert.”
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One of the biggest names in indie rap for the better part of a decade, Minneapolis duo Atmosphere have just released their latest album, When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold.
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“As far as I know,” says saxophonist Ken Field, “ Forked Tongue is the only CD ever released to include songs by both Ornette Coleman and Billy Idol.”
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These primal-funk black belts led by former Heavy Metal Horns leaders Henley Douglas Jr. and Garret Savluk spare no grease on their sixth studio album.
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Freaks you expect, but frauds and hucksters also populate the loosely defined subculture known as the underground.
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The British rave revolution of the late ’80s/early ’90s is accurately viewed as the source of the ever increasing number of dance genres in the UK.
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For most Rhode Islanders, the Station nightclub conflagration — the worst disaster in the state since the hurricane of 1938 — is like a receding object in a rearview mirror.
- Duke Levine
It’s an essay in tension and restraint.
- Freeway
The Philly native isn’t the popster they hoped he would be.
- Boston music news: February 1, 2008
The Cello Chix celebrate the release of Under the Covers at Lizard Lounge on February 8.
- Honeydripper
John Sayles’s first clunker is a threadbare yarn about the emergence of rock and roll that substitutes clichés for character development.
- Kula Shaker
Paisley drips from the notes these British neo-transcendentalists wring from the instruments on their third album, which ends a six-year hiatus.
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